Matthew D Howland

Biographic Data

ID299537
NAMEMatthew D Howland
GIVEN NAMESMatthew D
FAMILY NAMEHowland
SIGNATUREHOWLAND M D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California San Diego
ORCID0000-0001-5055-1343
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS19
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • As if the Pieces of the Past Were in Our Hands”

    Open AccessMatthew D Howland, Brady Liss et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Archaeological Practice2025References: 22

    This article describes the publication and evaluation of a user-driven narrative module on the public-facing 3D platform Sketchfab, which comprises dozens of interlinked 3D models relating to the archaeology of the Faynan region of Southern Jordan. Models included in the project are archaeological sites, excavation units, and artifacts related to the Iron Age and Islamic period archaeology of the region. By interlinking these models according to …

  • Stable Isotope Analysis and Chronology Building at the Hokfv-Mocvse Cultural Site, the Earliest Evidence for South Atlantic Shell-Ring Villages

    Open AccessCarey J Garland, V D Thompson et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2025References: 58

    Circular shell rings along the South Atlantic coast of the United States are vestiges of the earliest sedentary villages in North America, dating to 4500-3000 BP. However, little is known about when Indigenous communities began constructing these shell-ring villages. This article presents data from the Hokfv-Mocvse Shell Ring on Ossabaw Island, Georgia. Although shell rings are often associated with the earliest ceramics in North America, no cera…

  • Digital Deforestation

    Open AccessMatthew D Howland, Anthony Tamberino et al.ARTICLEQuaternary2022

    This paper tests the suitability of automated point cloud classification tools provided by the popular image-based modeling (IBM) software package Agisoft Metashape for the generation of digital terrain models (DTMs) at moderately-vegetated archaeological sites. DTMs are often required for various forms of archaeological mapping and analysis. The suite of tools provided by Agisoft are relatively user-friendly as compared to many point cloud class…

  • Ceramic technology at Wadi Fidan 61, an early Pottery Neolithic site (ca. 6500 B.C.E.) in the Faynan region of southern Jordan

    Open AccessMargie M Burton, Patrick Quinn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2021

    The Faynan region of southern Jordan became a center of industrial-scale metallurgical production during the Bronze and Iron Ages. However, socio-economic developments of the Pottery Neolithic period (ca. 6500-5500 B.C.E.) that helped set the stage for the rise of complex copper-producing societies are not well-understood. In this paper, we focus on ceramic technology at the early Pottery Neolithic site of Wadi Fidan 61 in the western part of the…

  • Integrating Digital Datasets into Public Engagement through ArcGIS StoryMaps

    Open AccessMatthew D Howland, Brady Liss et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Archaeological Practice2020Cited by: 5References: 17

    Archaeologists have a responsibility to use their research to engage people and provide opportunities for the public to interact with cultural heritage and interpret it on their own terms. This can be done through hypermedia and deep mapping as approaches to public archaeology. In twenty-first-century archaeology, scholars can rely on vastly improved technologies to aid them in these efforts toward public engagement, including digital photography…

  • Up the Wadi

    Brady Liss, Matthew D Howland et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology2020References: 34

    In 2014, the Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project renewed excavations at Khirbat al-Jariya (KAJ), an Iron Age copper smelting site in Faynan, Jordan. Located roughly 3 km from the prominent smelting center Khirbat en-Nahas (KEN), KAJ was an integral component of Early Iron Age (ca. 1200–800 b.c.) copper production in Faynan, one of the largest copper ore deposits in the southern Levant. To date, the site had only been investigated by survey…

  • Quantifying the effects of erosion on archaeological sites with low-altitude aerial photography, structure from motion, and GIS

    Open AccessMatthew D Howland, Ian W N Jones et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2018Cited by: 8References: 6

  • Testing Google Earth Engine for the automatic identification and vectorization of archaeological features

    Open AccessBrady Liss, Matthew D Howland et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science…2017Cited by: 3References: 4

  • Delphi4Delphi

    Open AccessI Liritzis, George Pavlidis et al.ARTICLEAntiquity2016References: 5

    Digital media and learning initiatives for virtual collaborative environments are contributing to the definition of new (sub-)disciplines in archaeological and heritage sciences. New nomenclature and terminology is emerging such as cyber archaeology, cyber archaeometry, virtual worlds and augmented and immersive realities; and all of them are related to museums and cultural heritage-tangible, intangible or natural (Forte 2010; Liritziset al. 2015

  • Structure from Motion

    Matthew D Howland, Falko Kuester et al.ARTICLENear Eastern Archaeology2014Cited by: 3References: 6

    This article focuses on the UC San Diego Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project's (ELRAP) development of a Structure from Motion-Based 3D field recording project. It includes a brief discussion of the relative advantages and disadvantages of this technique over other three-dimensional recording systems. The article also describes in detail the equipment and techniques used to collect the data needed to create 3D models of excavation units and…